Health

In socialist countries of old, it was easy to find cookies and candies in state-owned stores while fresh meat and bread was rare.

Some e-cig companies think new FDA regs are great. Smaller or less-established firms, however, may be less enthusiastic.
 

Peter Klein articulates several reasons why our current "Healthcare System" is so expensive, and explains how only the free market can halt the escalating costs.

Mark Thornton responds to former DEA administrator Peter Bensinger's claim that the legalization of marijuana is a "disaster". 

The decision to delay small employer mandates, but embrace reduced future labor supply is an example of bad economics, but good politics.

Section One: Coercion and Regulation. Narrated by Harold L. Fritsche.

Sweden is turning to markets and private payer insurance for answers to their state-run health care.

The notion that unpatented medical technologies are not feasible is historically false. The <em>British Medical Journal</em> challenged its readership to submit a list of the most noteworthy medical and pharmaceutical inventions throughout history. Only two of them have remotely <em>anything </em>to do with patents.

Government intervention causes iatrogenics — unintended negative consequences that hurt the very people they’re intended to help. Nowhere is this better exemplified than with Obamacare, a policy intended to bring insurance to all that has in effect taken it away from many. This paradox can be applied to other policy arenas as well.

The only way to provide good medical services at a reasonable cost is to bring back market pricing. We need the market not only to get supply and demand back into balance, but also to decide what exactly will be supplied. When was the last time that anyone saw a normal market price in medicine?